Game-board and spinner device.



A. B. WILDER.

GAME BOARD AND SPINNER DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED DEc.'4. 1.917.

1,300, 3 1 5. Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

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Al B. WILDER.

GAME BOARD AND SPINNER DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 4.1917.

1 ,300, 3 1 5 Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

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.ALLEN B. WILDER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO WILDER PATENTS COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

GAME-BOARD AND SPINNER DEVICE.

specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 15, 1919.

Application filed December 4, 1917. Serial No. 205,276.

To all whom t may concern v Be it known that I, ALLEN B. WILDER, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Game-Boards and Spinner Devices, of which the following vis a speciication.

This Vinvention relates to games of the kind in which the players are represented by counters which are moved over a playing board and has for its object to devise a game which will provide entertainment and at the same time tend to make the players prolicient in arithmetic. The invention consists -in a playing board which is divided into Zones representing animate and inanimate objects which the players try to capture.

The invention also consists in a spinner device having a plurality of rotative elements and a plurality of numbers arranged in concentric bands. Further objects and details of the invention appear hereinafter,

and what is claimed as the invention ap-v pears in the appended claims.

erence characters indicate like parts in the several views,

Figure 1 is a plan view of the spinner device;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of a game board embodying the invention.

The dial 1 of the spinner apparatus com-A prises three series of numbers arranged in concentric circular bands 2, each of which is different in color from the other two, or differentiated from them in some other manner. Radial lines divide the bands 2 into arcs, in each of which is a number. These numbers are arranged so that each `number of one series is exactly divisibleV by the corresponding number of oneA of the other series, and so that each number in one series is at least as large as the corresponding number in each of the other series, and in most instances larger than either of them. In the drawing, each number of the series in the outermost band is exactly divisible by the corresponding number of the series in the innermost band. Each number of the series in the outermost band is at least as large as the corresponding number of each;

a washer 5. A circular disk 6 is pivoted en the pivot l and rests loosely on the pointer 3. This arrangement affords a kind of frictional engagement between the pointer and the disk that will cause them to move together under some; conditions and not under others. yThe disk 6 is divided into differentiated sectors. These sectors are marked to indicate respectively addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, or some of them. The location of the disk relatively to the pointer when both stop turning determines whether addition, subtraction, multiplication or division is necessary to ascertain the result of the spin. If the head of the pointer is in the sector marked addition, addition is necessary, and so on. Space is afforded in the corners of the dial Vfor legends indicatingwhich numbers are to be added together, which Vis the minuend and which the subtrahend, which is the multiplicand and which the multiplier, and which is the dividend and which the divisor. 4 V

The game board shown in Fig. comprises Y cated by arrows. These paths represent theV path taken by a hunter in search of game. Stopping points of two kinds are marked on the paths. In the drawings, red circles and black circles are used.

EachV player is represented by a counter which is moved along the paths inthe direction indicated by the arrows. The spinner apparatus is used in the manner previously described. For ,the first or vmovingl play, the position of the disk is disregarded, the outermost number pointed at by the pointer is divided by the innermost and the counter is moved the number of circles indicated by the quotient. If the'counter stops Each zone f on a black spot,.the playersturn is over.` If it stops on a red spot, the player is said to sight game and has a chance to see if he can hit the animal of the Zone in which the counter is located. He spins the pointer a second time, and adds, subtracts or multiplies, according to the position ofthe disk relative tothe pointer when they stopturning. If the number or numbers so obtained appear in the zone in which the counter is located, the player is said to have killed'the animal and scores the number oi points indicated as the value of that animal. When a counter stops on a spot where two paths diverge, the shorter path is taken at theV next play.

Game boards and spinner devicesof the vkind described aiord opportunities for ,practice in arithmetic.

.It is obvious that changes may be made both in the playing board and in the spinner device Without departing Vfrom the invention, and I do not wish to be limited to the particular constructions shown.

I claim as my invention:

1. A Aspinner device comprisin a dial bearing series 'of numbers arranget in con centric bands, a pointer pivotally mounted at the center of said bands, and a disk concentric with 'said pointer and having frictional engagement therewith, said disk being divided into differentiated sectors.

2. A spinner device comprising a base board bearing series oi' numbers in concentric bands, and a plurality of indicator elements pivotally mounted at the center of,V

said bands and having frictional engagement with each other, whereby theyY rotate differentially together when one of them is spun. V A spinner device comprising a dial bearing seriesv ofl numbers in concentric bands, each number in one band being eX-` actly divisible by the corresponding number in another band, a pointer pivotally mounted at the cen'ter'pof said bands, and a disk concentric with said pointer, said disk being divided into di'ii'erentiatedV sectors.

4.. A spinner device Y comprising a dial bearing'series of numbers arranged in concentric bands, each number in the outermost band at least as large as the corref` spending numberin each et theV other bands, a pointer mounted on a pivot lat the center of said bands, andV a disk mounted on said pivot to turn differentially with saidpointerk above said pointer, said disk being divided into sectors.

5.. A spinner device comprising a dial bearingV ka plurality of' series ofnumbers in concentric bands, each number in one band the center of said bands, and a disk mounted on said pivot piece te turn diierentially with said pointer, said disk being divided into sectors, said sectors being marked respectively to indicate addition, subtraction and multiplication.

7. A playing board for games of the kind described comprising suitably indicated Zones, each of which contains the naine oi an object of value in the game, and a continuous'path traversing each of said zones, said path comprising spaces of red interspersed with spaces ofl black.

8. A playing board for games of the kind described comprising suitably' indicated zones, each of which contains the name of an object of valuev inthe game, a number indicating its value in the game and a plurality of other numbers, and a continuous path traversing each or said zones, said path comprising spaces-oi;l one color interspersed with spaces of another color. Y

9. The combination with aplaying board 'comprisingY zones and a continuous path traversing said Zones, of a Vspinner device comprising va plurality of bands bearing numbers 'and a plurality of indicator elements pivotally mounted at the center of said bands, and having frictional engagement with each other, whereby the spinning of one of said elements causes the other to' Y ed at the center of said circular bands, some of the numbers indicated by said indicatorl elements being the same' as numbers inthe zones. Y

Signed at St. Louis, Missouri, this 28th vday of November, 1917.

n ALLEN B. wrLDER.

Y Copies of 'this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing'rthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, Il). C. 

